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William Ferguson (24 July 1882 – 4 January 1950) was an Aboriginal Australian leader. [ 1 ] He was born at Darlington Point , Waddi , New South Wales , growing up near the Warengesda Mission near Cootamundra and, from 14 years after leaving school, worked with his father as a shearer , then labourer and mailman in the west of the State.
The Day of Mourning was organised by the Sydney-based Aborigines Progressive Association (APA), led by Jack Patten and William Ferguson, and was supported by William Cooper's Melbourne-based Australian Aborigines' League (AAL). Patten and Ferguson had published a series of policy demands earlier in the month.
The Aborigines Progressive Association (APA [1]) was established in 1937 by William Ferguson and Jack Patten in Dubbo, New South Wales. [2] [3] Ferguson led a group in the western part of the state, while Patten assembled an alliance of activists in the north-east.
William Ferguson (19 February 1924 – 8 January 2021) was a Scottish academic and author who specialised in the history of Scotland. He studied history at Glasgow and Oxford, and spent most of his academic career at the University of Edinburgh .
William John Ferguson (5 September 1859 – 23 May 1935) was an Australian politician. Born in Redruth in South Australia to smelter James Boyce Ferguson and Barbara Robinson. He attended primary school before becoming an engine driver and journalist in South Australia's mining districts, subsequently moving to Broken Hill , where he married ...
William Ferguson (Australian pioneer) (c. 1809–1892) early settler of South Australia William C. Ferguson (1930–2015), American telecommunications expert, chairman and CEO of NYNEX William R. Ferguson (1900–1967), leader of the Cosmic Circle of Fellowship , a UFO religion
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William Fergusson son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian on 20 March 1808, and was educated first at Lochmaben and afterwards at the high school and University of Edinburgh. At the age of fifteen he was placed by his own desire in a lawyer's office, but the work proved uncongenial, and at ...